i WELCOME See Editorial Page SirP tti OMINOUS See Today for Details Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 9, 1977 Free Issue Twenty-Eight Pages When in Ann Arbor, say as the New Yorkers say By MIKE NORTON Nobody knows how long it's been shere - or if they do, they're not spilling. But there it stands, plain as anything, on the well-traveled corner of State St. and North University Ave. It's a street sign erected by the literate city of Ann Arbor, and the word "university" - probably the most often-used word in town - has been misspelled. The "r" is missing. "IT'S DAMNED embarrassing, is what it is," gasped one elderly woman as she passed the sign. "What are all these new students going to, think? What kind of example are we setting?" LSA Junior Mike Sinclair said he first noticed the misspelled sign last week, but doesn't know how long it's been that way. "Maybe they did it that way for New Yorkers," he said. "They always pronounce it 'univesity' any- way." "I guess it takes an idiot like me to spot it," laughed Sinclair, who was the first person to point out the erroneous sign language. ART KUENDET, sign shop super- .v visor for the city, said he has no idea how long the embarrassing sign has been standing. "They go up and come down again just as fast as we can 4make them," he said. "People seem to think tney make real good sou- venirs." Kuendet said he plans to have the sign checked out and replaced. But by then, of course, the damage will already have been done: a whole crop of freshfolk will be misspelling "univesity" for the rest of their blighted lives. .. 0 . , iTS i ' ABOUT Ti ME . WS DAMNED EMBARRASSING O b l K yd 9 1 t/ < OPJ Y 4'} ais t'7 "" t1 7 s t 7 ws . t " N _i< " ' is f ' 1 _1 16 _ . University housing chief resigns I Lawsuit uts City paychecks in check By GREGG KRUPA The mail carrier delivered a dubious reward to City Council. members last Friday. Enclosed in the city-issued envelopes were the first batch of paychecks ever allotted councilpersons for their services. Attached to the paychecks were notes warning that the money should not be spent.; City Administrator §ylvester Mur- ray _issued the defla notice be- cause of a lawsuit contesting pay for City Council members. Local attor- ney John Laird, a former Republican councilman, has filed the suit and claims he will take the case to the state Supreme Court. The suit is the latest twist in a partisan debate that has divided Council members for several years. REPUBLICANS have generally maintained that monetary compen- sation for city officials would attract an unsavory breed of politician - one seeking office to promote a political career rather than seeking to per- form a public service. Democrats, however, have argued that the small salaries would encour- age Council members to spend the proper amount of time doing the job they were elected to do. The $5,000 salaries were approved by the City 'Compensation Commis- sion in 1975, despite a city charter provision prohibiting compensation for Council members., A circuit court judge then ruled that salaries for Council members were in direct violation of the charter provision, irregardless of state law, but last month an appeals court judge found that the state statute establishing compensation Fommis- -sions superceded local provisions. THE JUDGE referred to the wording of the state legislation, See COUNCIL, Page 8 rMUSEE SLticMW See Page 3 -. . . . . .......... . ;........ Feldkamp will assume duties at Princeton Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER GREG HESTERBERG, TREASURER of the newly formed Coalition for Better Housing, passes out information concerning the "tent-in" being staged on the lawn of the Student Activities Building. Students are pitching tents outside the Maynard Street building to dramatize the housing shortage for students. It ain't Mosher-Jordan, but it's ho-me lfor a whil By SUE WARNER University Housing Director John Feldkamp, the person with perhaps more day-to-day influence on undergraduates than any other top administra- tor, will leave the University next week to become general manager of services at Prince- ton. Feldkamp has been director of housing since 1966. Henry Johnson, University vice-president for student ser- vices, has named Associate Housing Director Robert Hughes acting director of the office until a permanent replacement is selected. JOHNSON '$AID yesterday he will appoint a director within a year. He did not indicate whether he will make Hughes' appointment permanent or go through the process of forming a search committee to select Feldkamp's successor. "John Feldkamp has, done a com- mendable job here at Michigan and we're sad to see him leave. But I under- stand that people need to seek out new experiences," Johnson said. In his new post, Feldkamp will supervise, Priceton's food and building service departments, office of special events, and faculty, staff and student housing. "I'm excited about the new job," Feldkamp said, "but there are very mhixed emotions. I'll be sad to leave Ann Arbor." Feldkamp's tenure as housing direc- tor has spanned a curious period in the University's history. The sixties brought considerable expansion in the student body and University facilities, while the Seventies witnessed stringent cutbacks. Feldkamp's housing office frequently found itself at the center of controver- sies concerning overflowing dormi- tories and spiraling rent rates. As if to offer a going-away salute to the resign- ing housing director, University stu- dents have staged a protest outside of the Student Activities Building de- manding aditional housing for the lodging-cramped community. FELDKAMP, HOWEVER, has stead- fastly advocated making do with ex- isting facilities. He has said the penny- pinched University cannot afford to build new housing. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University and joined the administrative staff in 1962 as assistant to the director of stu- dent activities and organizations. In addition to his work at the Uni- versity Feldkamp has been very active in the Ann Arbor community. Since 1975 he has been a hearing referee for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and served as a city councilman from 1967 to 1969. Additionally, Feldkamp has main- tained a part-time law practice since 1971. I'll miss this city," Feldkamp said. "I've been very active in the communi- ty and would have been celebrating my twentieth year in Ann Arbor this year." By JULIE ROVNER and BOB ROSENBAUM They call themselves the refugees of Ann Arbor's housing shortage. The Coalition for Better Housing has been camping for two days in a miniature tent city next to the Student Activities Building (SAB in an effort to dramatize the plight of many returning students who found themselves without a place to live., AS A RESULT of the shortage, students are tempor- arily doubling up in single rooms, nesting in hastily con- verted dorm lounges, or parking a bed wherever else there's room. To protest the situation, the Coalition pitched tents Wednesday night and were scheduled to leave this morn- ing. "Some people have to spend their first few weeks in ten- ts or on people's couches or floors," said coalition chair-' man Tim Kunin, "because everything is too crowded or too expensive or too far from campus. WE FEEL THAT THE University is not living up to its responsibility to provide enough reasonably priced housing for its students," he said. "When the University can't provide housing it pushes students into an already overcrowded city housing market and pushes rents up even further. It's even keeping some low-income people from getting a college education at afl. "What we really need is a new dorm." But housing officials maintain that construction of new housing is not now possible. "I don't like the situation any more than the students do," said John Finn, director of housing information, "es- pecially since I catch all the hell. If we could have more housing it would just make my job easier. We've done studies and held hearings but the Regents keep saying no'.' For women, campus housing is particularly difficult. SEVERAL FACTORS'HAVE LEFT the housing office with over 100 women for whom to find dorm space: * For the first time since it was begun three years ago, the spring housing lottery found all of its spaces filled; *This term saw a two per cent rise in housing applica- tions; " There have been fewer lease cancellations than usual. ACCORDING TO ROBERT HUGHES, the newly ap- pointed acting director of housing, the situation will "work itself out," meaning that all unplaced students will probably have permanent rooms by Sept. 16. If by that time students are still in temporary rooms, officials plan See THE NEW, Page 13 Feldkamp. Lanc'enot 'Cleared in r eport by' conipiriler WASHINGTON (AP - The comp- troller of the currency yesterday said that his reportlast month did not clear budget director Bert Lance of financial improprieties, even though it found no evidence of illegality. Lance had claimed it did clear him. "That certainly wasn't our assertion. That is not in my opinion a judgment I can make," John Heimann, com- ptroller of the currency, told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee as it reopened conflict of interest hearings on Lance. THE COMPTROLLER, who regulates the nation's banks, eni- phasized that his reports on Lance's ' See COMPTROLLER's, Page 13 E Hey, The Daily has never looked thi god.1 a -"sa ook us over: The Daily goes'cold' ... .. -.e 1890. That process is called "hot type," and it's about as ma 'orn "Stnn the nresses !" Hot leadtis dead that can be easily taught. We hope students will eventually command this process at the "YEAH, IT'S GREAT," said co-editor-in-chief Ann Marie Lipinski. "Oh, isn't that dumb?